Once she reached the bamboo curtain, clutched at it and tore it down as his arms went around her waist. Perhaps the day of her recompense was at hand. If there were any pearls, none came into the light. Courtlaw sat with folded arms. ‘I do not know how you think you may help me,’ she said slowly. The man or woman who did something for nothing always excited his suspicions; they were playing some kind of a game. Did I not say so, Hilary?’ Melusine’s glance shot across to the newcomer, and found a petite blonde standing there, very fashionably attired in a velvet mantel over an apple-green robe, the furred hood framing a face alive with mischief. She made no attempt to answer her sister’s question. It was hard to meet that gaze. The island had evidently grown round this lagoon, approached it gradually from the volcanic upheaval—an island of coral and lava. Even the stars were strangers. She made up her mind in the train home that it should be a decisive crisis. He was no longer in military uniform, and it was evident from his suit of brown brocade that he had been disturbed while preparing for an evening engagement. ‘And this is not all,’ went on the lady, evidently determined to disclose all her wrongs.
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